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B. PĀNINĪYA SCHOOL.
अष्टाध्यायी
Ashtādhyāyi No.5
57
1887-91 Size -83 in, by 41 in. Extent-82 leaves; 10 lines to a page%3 and about 24 letters to a
line.
Description-Country paper, Devanagari characters with occa
sional qerts; clear, legible and fairly correct; borders ruled
irregularly ; complete, last leaf redundant. Age-Samvat 1784. Author -Panini. Subject — The Aphorisms of Grammar, divided into eight chapters
or Adhyāyas, whence the name Ashţādhyāyi, instead of which Pāṇiniya Sūtrapātha or Pāṇiniya Sabdānuśāsana
are also current. Begins - श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ श्रीभवानीशंकराभ्यां नमः॥ ॐ येनाक्षर
समाम्नायमधिगम्य महेश्वरात् ॥ कृत्स्नं व्याकरणं प्रोक्तं तस्मै पाणिनये नमः ॥१॥ येन धौता गिरः पुंसां विमलै: शब्दवारिधः(भिः)॥ तमश्चाज्ञानजं भिन्नं तस्मै पाणिनये नमः ॥२॥ अथ
शब्दानुशासनं । अइउण् । ऋलक । एओ । Ends-अ अ इति । इत्ययमस्य चतर्थः पादः। अधमोध्याय: समाप्तः॥
स्वति संवत् १७८४ वर्षे चैत्रमासे कृष्णपक्षे चतुईयां गुरुवासरे अयेह सेनापुरवास्तव्यं आभ्यन्तरवृद्धनागरज्ञातीयद्विवेदिकृष्णासुत् सोमनाथसुत् देवनाथेन लिखितमिदं । रेवातीरे कण्वालग्राममध्ये लिखितम् । श्री॥ श्रीकल्याणमस्तु ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ छ॥
Reference -The text has been printed in India many times. The
first edition of the Ashtādhyāyi ( with a commentary ) seems to have been the Calcutta edition of 1809, while the first European edition is that of Bohtlingk, dated 1839-40.